Topic: Building a rock solid multi-gpu linux mining rig with CEntOS 6.0 (Read 49569 times)
With that post I am locking this thread. I agree that Centos is no longer the best or perhaps even a viable solution.
February 04, 2014, 02:25:07 PM
FYI, I am returning here to say I gave up and just went with LTCRabbit. Loaded the USB stick up and booted and the damn thing started mining within 2 minutes of boot up! At 690 khash/s per 280x no less! Seriously, I didn't touch anything and it started mining (to the author's pool no less, but that's normal until you configure it to use your pool). It was plug-boot-and play litterly. Yeah, don't frack with CentOS - just use LTCRabbit.
I then went with BAMT Scrypt version; but, I noticed why LTCRabbit has in their release notes "fixed a number of bugs in BAMT." Hehe. It didn't feel as refined and didn't work out of the box. I had to tweak their version of the 'default' cgminer.conf file.
I went back to LTCRabbit and am just dumdfounded how rock-solid from boot. Then again, I already had 280x GPUs so if you have anything else, it will require you to tinker with the cgminer.conf file (and will lockup if you have lower-end GPUs - just edit-and-break the cgminer.conf within the first 20s of boot - because you have 20 seconds of delay before it starts mining).
This is getting off-topic as this thread is about building for CentOS.
But, any motherboard that supports 4 PCIe slots will do. There are plenty out there, search around for cheapest posted in Bitcointalk.
Also note that each of those 7990s will draw close to 400 to 450w (500-550 if you push them hard with I 20). Running 4 in a single rig is going to require two PSUs, and a 20A circuit to feed both PSUs (or two dedicated 15A circuits).
If you feel it's too complicated and a waste since you can't run that many, hit me up in PM - I'll buy the 7990s from ya! Hehe
I then went with BAMT Scrypt version; but, I noticed why LTCRabbit has in their release notes "fixed a number of bugs in BAMT." Hehe. It didn't feel as refined and didn't work out of the box. I had to tweak their version of the 'default' cgminer.conf file.
I went back to LTCRabbit and am just dumdfounded how rock-solid from boot. Then again, I already had 280x GPUs so if you have anything else, it will require you to tinker with the cgminer.conf file (and will lockup if you have lower-end GPUs - just edit-and-break the cgminer.conf within the first 20s of boot - because you have 20 seconds of delay before it starts mining).
Im looking to build my first rig
Im getting 4 - SAPPHIRE AMD ATI Radeon HD 7990 6GB GDDR5 21207-00-43G
Im not sure what motherboard i can use for all 4 cards nor where to go from there in terms of flashing bios and software support
any help will be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Im getting 4 - SAPPHIRE AMD ATI Radeon HD 7990 6GB GDDR5 21207-00-43G
Im not sure what motherboard i can use for all 4 cards nor where to go from there in terms of flashing bios and software support
any help will be appreciated
Thanks in advance
This is getting off-topic as this thread is about building for CentOS.
But, any motherboard that supports 4 PCIe slots will do. There are plenty out there, search around for cheapest posted in Bitcointalk.
Also note that each of those 7990s will draw close to 400 to 450w (500-550 if you push them hard with I 20). Running 4 in a single rig is going to require two PSUs, and a 20A circuit to feed both PSUs (or two dedicated 15A circuits).
If you feel it's too complicated and a waste since you can't run that many, hit me up in PM - I'll buy the 7990s from ya! Hehe
February 04, 2014, 01:26:00 PM
Im looking to build my first rig
Im getting 4 - SAPPHIRE AMD ATI Radeon HD 7990 6GB GDDR5 21207-00-43G
Im not sure what motherboard i can use for all 4 cards nor where to go from there in terms of flashing bios and software support
any help will be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Im getting 4 - SAPPHIRE AMD ATI Radeon HD 7990 6GB GDDR5 21207-00-43G
Im not sure what motherboard i can use for all 4 cards nor where to go from there in terms of flashing bios and software support
any help will be appreciated
Thanks in advance
January 28, 2014, 01:57:41 PM
One tip with LTCRabbit, make sure to use at least a 4GB thumbdrive. Even though it's <2 GB distro, it seemed to choke when put on anything smaller than a 4GB thumbdrive. Not really sure why, maybe swap space or some other non-sense. But the fact is I couldn't get it to boot and run reliably on anything smaller than 4GB.
January 28, 2014, 01:49:05 PM
I've had great luck on more modern cards using the distro from LTCRabbit. I know that doesn't help your problem, but when we moved to the R9 290x we couldn't make it work under CentOS and ended up changing distros. Prior to that time we have been mining with 6870x2's.
The nice thing about the LTCRabbit distro is that it "just works". No fiddling around with anything other than a couple of config files (to make it mine anywhere else other than LTCRabbit).
The nice thing about the LTCRabbit distro is that it "just works". No fiddling around with anything other than a couple of config files (to make it mine anywhere else other than LTCRabbit).
Thank you for this. I first tried Ubuntu but since I was using it mainly for Nvidia (successfully) I ran into lots of drivers and display issues when I swapped in AMD gpus (I am all headless on my boxes here). I decided that if i was going to format to wipe Nvidia, I'd try something more known to work smoothly. This CentOS setup sounded like the key - but, doh!
If I didn't find a solution today, and opening it to the community didn't resolve it, I was going to give Rabbit or BAMT a try tonight.
January 28, 2014, 01:41:48 PM
I've had great luck on more modern cards using the distro from LTCRabbit. I know that doesn't help your problem, but when we moved to the R9 290x we couldn't make it work under CentOS and ended up changing distros. Prior to that time we have been mining with 6870x2's.
The nice thing about the LTCRabbit distro is that it "just works". No fiddling around with anything other than a couple of config files (to make it mine anywhere else other than LTCRabbit).
The nice thing about the LTCRabbit distro is that it "just works". No fiddling around with anything other than a couple of config files (to make it mine anywhere else other than LTCRabbit).
January 27, 2014, 11:47:34 PM
Got a problem... It may be because I am using the latest 2.9 SDK and 13.12 drivers.
I have a collection of GPUs, so I was thinking of using the latest drivers as it seems the ones in the guide is quite old.
R9 280x
R9 290
HD 7970
CentOS 6.0
Using my local user account, not a separate user 'miner' (added myself as sudoers as well, so shouldn't be a problem using sudo).
Things were humming along nicely until I got to the AMD driver install (after the SDK install and reboot). I try to run this:
And I get this error almost immediately:
During the guide, when the author says to replace the CentOS-Base.repo with his own, I got a lot of 404s and "No more mirros to try." So i reverted back to the one that came with CentOS. Maybe this is the reason? It installed a newer version of X by using the default repos?
EDIT: I'll try to uninstall x11 and look for other mirrors per the comments (now that I re-read the script file) /EDIT
Also, I noticed that the author said it was ok to have multiple devel kernels' loaded. Humm. I could not find a matching -devel kernel to match my kernel. So it looks like I installed two kernels?
As of now, I'm stuck. I tried downgrading, but yum only downgrades to known packages (all still 13.*).
EDIT 2:
Ok, I'm trying to force an install of x11 1.7, but yum is not being cooperative.
It seems the only x11 available by yum is 1.13. So I downloaded 1.7 directly from the mirrors and try running:
It seems Yum does version checks, and wants to install what it knows is online:
I have a collection of GPUs, so I was thinking of using the latest drivers as it seems the ones in the guide is quite old.
R9 280x
R9 290
HD 7970
CentOS 6.0
Using my local user account, not a separate user 'miner' (added myself as sudoers as well, so shouldn't be a problem using sudo).
Things were humming along nicely until I got to the AMD driver install (after the SDK install and reboot). I try to run this:
Code:
(as root)
[root@miner01 miningpacks]# sh amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run
[root@miner01 miningpacks]# sh amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run
And I get this error almost immediately:
Code:
=====================================================================
AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager
=====================================================================
error: Detected X Server version 'XServer _64a' is not supported. Supported versions are X.Org 6.9 or later, up to XServer 1.10 (default:v2:x86_64:lib:XServer _64a:none:2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64:)
Installation will not proceed.
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.LqjBJn
AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager
=====================================================================
error: Detected X Server version 'XServer _64a' is not supported. Supported versions are X.Org 6.9 or later, up to XServer 1.10 (default:v2:x86_64:lib:XServer _64a:none:2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64:)
Installation will not proceed.
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.LqjBJn
During the guide, when the author says to replace the CentOS-Base.repo with his own, I got a lot of 404s and "No more mirros to try." So i reverted back to the one that came with CentOS. Maybe this is the reason? It installed a newer version of X by using the default repos?
EDIT: I'll try to uninstall x11 and look for other mirrors per the comments (now that I re-read the script file) /EDIT
Also, I noticed that the author said it was ok to have multiple devel kernels' loaded. Humm. I could not find a matching -devel kernel to match my kernel. So it looks like I installed two kernels?
Code:
[root@miner01 ~]$ sudo yum list installed | grep kernel-*
[sudo] password for eric:
dracut-kernel.noarch 004-32.el6 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.el6 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6 @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6 @updates
kernel-firmware.noarch 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6 @updates
kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6 @updates
[sudo] password for eric:
dracut-kernel.noarch 004-32.el6 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.el6 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6 @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6 @updates
kernel-firmware.noarch 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6 @updates
kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6 @updates
As of now, I'm stuck. I tried downgrading, but yum only downgrades to known packages (all still 13.*).
Code:
[user@miner01 miningpacks]# yum downgrade xorg-x11-server* xorg-x11-drv*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Downgrade Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.unmeteredvps.net
* extras: mirror.ash.fastserv.com
* updates: centosb5.centos.org
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
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No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
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No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-devel-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-devel-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-source-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.noarch
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-server-utils-7.5-13.el6.x86_64
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No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-devel-2.7.3-5.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-devel-2.7.3-5.el6.x86_64
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No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel-2.21.12-2.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel-2.21.12-2.el6.x86_64
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No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-mouse-devel-1.8.1-7.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-mouse-devel-1.8.1-7.el6.x86_64
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Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.3.0-3.20120806git.el6.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-devel-0.3.0-3.20120806git.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-devel-0.3.0-3.20120806git.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.5.0-4.el6.x86_64
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Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.6.2-13.el6.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-devel-1.6.2-13.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-devel-1.6.2-13.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-tdfx-1.4.5-2.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-trident-1.3.6-4.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-v4l-0.2.0-6.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.2-4.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.9.0-10.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.2-3.20120718gite5ac80d8f.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-void-1.4.0-3.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.2.5-3.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.16.1-4.el6.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-wacom-devel-0.16.1-4.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-wacom-devel-0.16.1-4.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-xgi-1.6.0-18.20121114git.el6.x86_64
Nothing to do
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Downgrade Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.unmeteredvps.net
* extras: mirror.ash.fastserv.com
* updates: centosb5.centos.org
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-server-common-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-devel-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-devel-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-server-source-1.13.0-23.el6.centos.noarch
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-server-utils-7.5-13.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.5.0-6.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.4.1-4.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-apm-1.2.5-5.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-ast-0.97.0-2.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.1.0-3.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware-7.1.0-3.el6.noarch
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.5.1-2.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.3.6-2.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-elographics-1.4.1-2.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.7.3-5.el6.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-devel-2.7.3-5.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-devel-2.7.3-5.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.3-2.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.4.0-5.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-glint-1.2.8-3.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen-1.4.1-4.el6.x86_64
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Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-i740-1.3.4-5.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.12-2.el6.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel-2.21.12-2.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-intel-devel-2.21.12-2.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.6.2-7.el6.x86_64
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Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.6.1-10.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-modesetting-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.8.1-7.el6.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-mouse-devel-1.8.1-7.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-mouse-devel-1.8.1-7.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.3.0-4.el6.x86_64
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Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.3.0-3.20120806git.el6.x86_64
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-devel-0.3.0-3.20120806git.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-devel-0.3.0-3.20120806git.el6.x86_64
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No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-devel-1.6.2-13.el6.i686
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No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-wacom-devel-0.16.1-4.el6.i686
No Match for available package: xorg-x11-drv-wacom-devel-0.16.1-4.el6.x86_64
Only Upgrade available on package: xorg-x11-drv-xgi-1.6.0-18.20121114git.el6.x86_64
Nothing to do
EDIT 2:
Ok, I'm trying to force an install of x11 1.7, but yum is not being cooperative.
It seems the only x11 available by yum is 1.13. So I downloaded 1.7 directly from the mirrors and try running:
Code:
yum localinstall xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.7-26.el6_0.3.x86_64.rpm
It seems Yum does version checks, and wants to install what it knows is online:
Code:
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pm-utils x86_64 1.2.5-10.el6 base 108 k
system-setup-keyboard x86_64 0.7-4.el6 base 11 k
xorg-x11-drv-evdev x86_64 2.7.3-5.el6 base 40 k
xorg-x11-drv-vesa x86_64 2.3.2-4.el6 base 20 k
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January 03, 2014, 06:19:19 PM
The problem has never been cgminer, it's been Centos.
December 29, 2013, 01:40:46 AM
Is this updated? Latest cgminer that does GPUs is 3.7.2 I think.
I don't use it for anything else either. I will bump it up to 14 to see how that goes.
Rebooting fixed the GUI although I am just sshing in still.
If I have time in a bit, I'll try to re-work the instructions in those two spots. I was just re-arranging the order there I believe and correcting that one typo.
Thanks!
Rebooting fixed the GUI although I am just sshing in still.
If I have time in a bit, I'll try to re-work the instructions in those two spots. I was just re-arranging the order there I believe and correcting that one typo.
Thanks!
Yea, that's why I do that. You could just give miner a password at the end of the process and then you can log in as miner and use it without needing to sudo.
Great advice and suggestions. I'll re-work the instructions just as soon as I can. (Unless you who just did this want to make the changes necessary, I'll just copy and paste your code).
Thanks again!
ps. I run at I=14 since I don't use the box for anything else.
Great advice and suggestions. I'll re-work the instructions just as soon as I can. (Unless you who just did this want to make the changes necessary, I'll just copy and paste your code).
Thanks again!
ps. I run at I=14 since I don't use the box for anything else.
Yea, that's why I do that. You could just give miner a password at the end of the process and then you can log in as miner and use it without needing to sudo.
Great advice and suggestions. I'll re-work the instructions just as soon as I can. (Unless you who just did this want to make the changes necessary, I'll just copy and paste your code).
Thanks again!
ps. I run at I=14 since I don't use the box for anything else.
Great advice and suggestions. I'll re-work the instructions just as soon as I can. (Unless you who just did this want to make the changes necessary, I'll just copy and paste your code).
Thanks again!
ps. I run at I=14 since I don't use the box for anything else.
Hi,
I think I would prefer to run it as a dedicated user vs root (I didn't run cgminer using sudo yet, but will try it).
It is mining with your test now, so you should see some coins. I need to adjust the aggressiveness a bit.
It does appear that the GUI is not working right now, but I'm okay with that. ;-) I'm not messing with things at the moment.
I think I would prefer to run it as a dedicated user vs root (I didn't run cgminer using sudo yet, but will try it).
It is mining with your test now, so you should see some coins. I need to adjust the aggressiveness a bit.
It does appear that the GUI is not working right now, but I'm okay with that. ;-) I'm not messing with things at the moment.
AHHH, nice. I could never figure out how to run it as sudo. I run as a dedicated user. NICE FIND!
For me the error cleans up when I run the same:
export DISPLAY=:0
as the dedicated user, so your solution makes alot of sense.
Oh, you are golden now.
For me the error cleans up when I run the same:
export DISPLAY=:0
as the dedicated user, so your solution makes alot of sense.
Oh, you are golden now.
1. One thing I'd emphasize by the yum update section is to not do any GUI updates either.
2. The only issue I am having now is that if I am running as the user "miner" e.g.:
su -l miner
Then it is not working.
If I am running as root with your example here (to say thanks):
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1NQc6tCtRmT8zBeLKNpboFaUBMLcxDwUm6 -p x0 -I 9 --per-device-stats 2>logfile.txt
then it is mining.
So the only remaining hitch is to figure out why it is running okay as root, but not as the miner user:
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 miner miner 1010558 May 28 14:15 cgminer
So, if others have problems, here are two things to try:
sudo DISPLAY=:0 fglrxinfo
And as root try running cgminer.
e.g.
cd /home/miner/cgminer
./cgminer -n
Thanks for the tips.
2. The only issue I am having now is that if I am running as the user "miner" e.g.:
su -l miner
Then it is not working.
If I am running as root with your example here (to say thanks):
./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://mining.eligius.st:3334 -u 1NQc6tCtRmT8zBeLKNpboFaUBMLcxDwUm6 -p x0 -I 9 --per-device-stats 2>logfile.txt
then it is mining.
So the only remaining hitch is to figure out why it is running okay as root, but not as the miner user:
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 miner miner 1010558 May 28 14:15 cgminer
So, if others have problems, here are two things to try:
sudo DISPLAY=:0 fglrxinfo
And as root try running cgminer.
e.g.
cd /home/miner/cgminer
./cgminer -n
Thanks for the tips.
AHHH, nice. I could never figure out how to run it as sudo. I run as a dedicated user. NICE FIND!
For me the error cleans up when I run the same:
export DISPLAY=:0
as the dedicated user, so your solution makes alot of sense.
Oh, you are golden now.
For me the error cleans up when I run the same:
export DISPLAY=:0
as the dedicated user, so your solution makes alot of sense.
Oh, you are golden now.
j.
lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx 2763401 225
I did this:
sudo DISPLAY=:0 fglrxinfo
And NOW I got this:
cgminer -n
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] Platform 0 devices: 6
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 0 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 1 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 2 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 3 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 4 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 5 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 1 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 2 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 3 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 4 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 5 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 6 GPU devices max detected
Fingers crossed that I can mine now. ;-)
lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx 2763401 225
I did this:
sudo DISPLAY=:0 fglrxinfo
And NOW I got this:
cgminer -n
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] Platform 0 devices: 6
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 0 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 1 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 2 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 3 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 4 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 5 Cayman
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 1 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 2 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 3 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 4 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] GPU 5 AMD Radeon HD 6990 hardware monitoring enabled
[2013-05-28 14:56:54] 6 GPU devices max detected
Fingers crossed that I can mine now. ;-)
1. After going through it again, perhaps just moving this to the later section after the git command would be enough:
cp /home/miner/miningpacks/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp/include/*.h /home/miner/cgminer/ADL_SDK
rm -rf /home/miner/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp
2. I did reinstall it all from the live CD, and no luck. I made sure there were no updates by from yum at all.
a. Now the kernels look identical to yours:
yum list installed | grep kernel-*
dracut-kernel.noarch 004-32.el6 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.el6 installed
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.el6 @base
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 @updates
kernel-firmware.noarch 2.6.32-71.el6 installed
kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 @updates
b.
aticonfig --list-adapters
* 0. 13:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
1. 12:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
2. 0b:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
3. 0a:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
4. 07:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
5. 06:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
c.
ps aux | grep X
root 3417 3.6 16.9 216720 314916 tty1 Ss+ 14:04 0:47 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-4iMIIH/database -nolisten tcp vt1
d. locate fglrx64
looks identical to yours
e. uname -r
2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
f. lspci -nn | grep VGA
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
13:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
g.
env DISPLAY=:0.0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
(and the fan revs up)
h.
glxgears
44174 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8834.614 FPS
44441 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8888.093 FPS
i.
export DISPLAY=:0
./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] 0 GPU devices max detected
cp /home/miner/miningpacks/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp/include/*.h /home/miner/cgminer/ADL_SDK
rm -rf /home/miner/ADL-SDK-3point0-temp
2. I did reinstall it all from the live CD, and no luck. I made sure there were no updates by from yum at all.
a. Now the kernels look identical to yours:
yum list installed | grep kernel-*
dracut-kernel.noarch 004-32.el6 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.el6 installed
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.el6 @base
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 @updates
kernel-firmware.noarch 2.6.32-71.el6 installed
kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 @updates
b.
aticonfig --list-adapters
* 0. 13:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
1. 12:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
2. 0b:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
3. 0a:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
4. 07:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
5. 06:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 6990
c.
ps aux | grep X
root 3417 3.6 16.9 216720 314916 tty1 Ss+ 14:04 0:47 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-4iMIIH/database -nolisten tcp vt1
d. locate fglrx64
looks identical to yours
e. uname -r
2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
f. lspci -nn | grep VGA
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
13:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:671d]
g.
env DISPLAY=:0.0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
(and the fan revs up)
h.
glxgears
44174 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8834.614 FPS
44441 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8888.093 FPS
i.
export DISPLAY=:0
./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable
[2013-05-28 14:39:08] 0 GPU devices max detected
I do not know if this is important but my results differ from yours very slightly:
Code:
yum list installed | grep kernel-*
dracut-kernel.noarch 004-32.el6 installed
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.el6 installed
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.el6 @base
kernel-devel.x86_64 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 @updates
kernel-firmware.noarch 2.6.32-71.el6 installed
kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 @updates
Yeah, just bizarre. I believe I did, but did it twice. I will re-try one more time. ;-)
$ ./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] 0 GPU devices max detected
$ ./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable
[2013-05-28 11:05:26] 0 GPU devices max detected
and
.cgminer -n
just fails, huh?
That's what I was getting before I wrote the script. Did you absolutely make sure you cut off the yum upgrades? Because yum is not friendly for this, if you did not modify the yum conf file before running a yum update/upgrade that will break it.
.cgminer -n
just fails, huh?
That's what I was getting before I wrote the script. Did you absolutely make sure you cut off the yum upgrades? Because yum is not friendly for this, if you did not modify the yum conf file before running a yum update/upgrade that will break it.
and
.cgminer -n
just fails, huh?
That's what I was getting before I wrote the script. Did you absolutely make sure you cut off the yum upgrades? Because yum is not friendly for this, if you did not modify the yum conf file before running a yum update/upgrade that will break it.
.cgminer -n
just fails, huh?
That's what I was getting before I wrote the script. Did you absolutely make sure you cut off the yum upgrades? Because yum is not friendly for this, if you did not modify the yum conf file before running a yum update/upgrade that will break it.
Hi,
I am ssh'ing in right now, but can go to it if needed. It has been running nicely for about 2 years now until I decided to "upgrade" on Friday. 3 AMD Radeon HD 6990s. 2 GB RAM. 500GB HDD.
Thanks for the reply, regarding your questions:
1.
$ glxgears
49458 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9891.541 FPS
49647 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9929.385 FPS
49683 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9936.522 FPS
...
2.
env DISPLAY=:0.0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
3.
env DISPLAY=:0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
I am ssh'ing in right now, but can go to it if needed. It has been running nicely for about 2 years now until I decided to "upgrade" on Friday. 3 AMD Radeon HD 6990s. 2 GB RAM. 500GB HDD.
Thanks for the reply, regarding your questions:
1.
$ glxgears
49458 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9891.541 FPS
49647 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9929.385 FPS
49683 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9936.522 FPS
...
2.
env DISPLAY=:0.0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
3.
env DISPLAY=:0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
PPLIB command execution is Successful!
Beautiful and I will incorporate your changes asap.
Can you see glxgears?
$ glxgears
6564 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1312.776 FPS
39798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7959.491 FPS
Are you at the head? Or remote? What's your setup?
let me know what this returns:
env DISPLAY=:0.0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
or
env DISPLAY=:0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
Can you see glxgears?
$ glxgears
6564 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1312.776 FPS
39798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7959.491 FPS
Are you at the head? Or remote? What's your setup?
let me know what this returns:
env DISPLAY=:0.0 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
or
env DISPLAY=:0.1 aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"
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